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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c765a05 | That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole s.. | illusion unknown world | Virginia Woolf | |
| fe76d30 | Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and fall and rise again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet. Boats and youth passing and distant trees, "the falling fountains of the pendant trees". I see it all. I feel it all. I am inspired. My eyes fill with tears. Yet even as I feel this. I lash my frenzy higher and higher. It foams. It becomes artifici.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 929f7ec | and really it would profit little to write down what they said, for they knew each other so well that they could say anything they liked, which is tantamount to saying nothing, or saying such stupid, prosy things, as how to cook an omelette, or where to buy the best boots in London, which have no lustre taken from their setting, yet are positively of amazing beauty within it. For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our mo.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 257a690 | Life for both sexes -- and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement -- is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 21ffe62 | Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. | canto-xii inferno | Dante Alighieri | |
| 0a0f351 | We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die. | life love war wealth | David Gemmell | |
| d9d2b26 | This is a fierce bad rabbit; | bunnies fierceness humor rabbits | Beatrix Potter | |
| ed82f52 | The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution. | separation-of-powers | Edward gibbon | |
| 7f43905 | She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion. | confusion floating metaphor mind ocean sad scared | Caroline B. Cooney | |
| 6951e7b | I think you run out of 'I love yous | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a063c14 | People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them. | people | Ned Vizzini | |
| 2433b77 | This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2604af4 | Show up for your own life, he said. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle-feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant-gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about conciousness, so honor that consciousness. Revere your senses; don't degrade them with drugs, with depression, with wilfu.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6c91874 | m`Zm lbshr '`ynhm mGlq@ bGbr lkhyb@ l~ HdW ymn`hm mn rw'y@ lHqyq@ | people truth | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| b9463b3 | The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6eddf82 | My soul, when I tend to it, is a far more expansive and fascinating source of guidance than my ego will ever be, because my soul desires only one thing: wonder. And since creativity is my most efficient pathway to wonder, I take refuge there, and it feeds my soul, and it quiets the hungry ghost--thereby saving me from the most dangerous aspect of myself. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0a2acbd | Because the truth is, I believe that creativity is a force of enchantment--not entirely human in its origins. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e1a70fc | We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6642d27 | The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 020c876 | I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 55e0e33 | When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellow.. | stupidity | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| bca2c6e | A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| dde3879 | There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| e765e13 | A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into? | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 87d1f4a | Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches. | David James Duncan | ||
| 766671e | And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself. | David James Duncan | ||
| 6cc9f9c | I started having doubts right on top of my certainty. | faith | David James Duncan | |
| 0100906 | You're very good. Are you a professional artist?" "I dabble," she said. Shadow had spent enough time talking to the English to know that this meant either that she dabbled, or that her work was regularly hung in the National gallery or the Tate Modern." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 801d45d | I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2b293e3 | It's like people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 409ef9d | Mostly you are what they think you are. | reality | Neil Gaiman | |
| 7fb1ee3 | Were you always like this?' 'Like what?' 'A madman. With a time machine.' 'Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d26b23d | In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, of who I am and where I'm going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the stars and sky... a trinity of dreams beneath the moon. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5ba23e9 | They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1e433cc | You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived." | miserable misery | Neil Gaiman | |
| 635307b | The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9adf499 | What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?" "Because I'm a damsel in distress," she said. "And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3a2fc84 | And just when you'd think they were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they could occasionally show more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of. Often the same individual was involved. It was this free-will thing, of course. It was a bugger. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| faab3a3 | Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will all take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk toward the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take." Calum" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9494d23 | I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9ac51f4 | will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7833295 | There's an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you've been somewhere before, that you've somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 41be90b | The paradigms were shifting. He could feel it. The old world, a world of infinite vastness and illimitable resources and future, was being confronted by something else--a web of energy, of opinions, of gulfs. People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with go.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 785fa5f | That Hieronymus Bosch. What a weirdo. | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |